Saving could be simple tooif Word didn't provide a whole tab's worth of save options to confuse the issue. Some of these options are pretty much guaranteed to cause problem, while others can help you work faster and recover as much of your work as possible if Word crashes.

We'll learn Word's fancy drawing features for tables; how to position tables & textboxes and their contents exactly where you want them and prevent Word from adjusting column widths without your consent; how to use header rows, borders, and formulae; and many other table-related issues.

How to choose between linking and embedding, and how to deal with broken links after one of your colleagues has made the wrong choice, how to deal with the grievances typically aired about mail merging.

This is a tutorial, so it concentrates on the Word problems that are most likely to crop up for Mac users. The tutorial starts with severe problems that might make you want to encourage your Mac to fly.